Agent Island update keeps Claude Code status local

Agent Island has released version 1.7.1 of its desktop companion app for Claude Code and Codex on macOS and Windows. The update keeps session status visible in a local desktop view without uploading transcripts to a cloud dashboard.

The software is aimed at developers running more than one coding-agent session at a time who need to see which sessions are active, which have stopped, and which need user input. It is free and open source under the MIT licence.

The app shows local session activity in a compact desktop view. It flags active and stopped sessions, as well as sessions that appear to need attention. Labels and project context help users return to the right terminal window.

The release addresses a common issue for developers using coding agents in terminals. Sessions can keep running while a user switches to a browser, editor, issue tracker, or another terminal, forcing repeated checks to see whether an agent has finished or is waiting for a response.

Tristan Tang, who helps run Agent Island, described that problem in a statement. "Agent Island was built around a recurring problem: Claude Code and Codex sessions often finish or need input while you're working elsewhere, but checking every terminal repeatedly breaks focus," Tang said.

A central part of the product's design is that it processes supported session records on the user's own machine. It does not require a user account or send transcript content to an Agent Island service.

"Agent Island keeps that status local, shows which session needs attention, and can notify you without uploading transcripts to a cloud dashboard," Tang said.

Local reporting

Version 1.7.1 also adds local usage and reporting views. On macOS, the Claude Code view can display five-hour and weekly quota windows reported for the signed-in account, while the current Codex provider view shows a weekly window only.

The quota information is kept separate from the app's local token ledger. In practice, remaining quota is shown as provider-reported capacity before a reset, while token events reflect activity found in local session records.

Agent Island applies a dated model-price snapshot to estimate API value, but does not present that figure as an invoice, subscription charge, or claim of savings. Billing remains the responsibility of the provider's own systems.

The release also keeps several categories of activity separate when the underlying session event includes those fields, including input, output, cache creation, and cache-read activity. Replayed records are deduplicated, so rescanning a session after a restart does not inflate a report, and model identifiers that cannot be matched are left unpriced.

Platform split

Although the macOS and Windows packages share the same main function of showing session status and handoff alerts, Agent Island draws a distinction between the two platforms. The usage, cost, and reporting behaviour described in the release has been verified on macOS, while the public Windows package is positioned around the cross-platform session-status workflow.

That means provider-specific usage details on Windows should be assessed on the platform where they appear rather than assumed to match macOS in every respect. The macOS version is distributed as a signed DMG, and the Windows edition as an x64 ZIP package.

Open source focus

Agent Island's source code, release history, and packaged downloads are public, reflecting a product approach built around local processing rather than a hosted service. Weekly and monthly report cards also remain local unless a user explicitly copies or shares them.

The design separates what it sees as the handoff signal from the underlying conversation content. In other words, the app aims to identify when attention is needed without making continuous transcript collection a condition of use.

The problem extends beyond teams running many coding agents at once. A single long-running session can also finish while a developer is writing documentation, reviewing a pull request, or testing another part of a product, making a status tool a prompt that work has returned to the user.

The project remains available as a free download for macOS and Windows under the MIT licence, with public access to the source code and release notes.